margin-right: 0 - Doesn't Seem To Work

**Checkmate** · Dec 23, 2001 18:41

I'm using a tables on my web page. Having margin-left and margin-top seem to eliminate the spaces, but margin-right doesn't seem to work. What am I missing here?

**Maelstrom** · Dec 23, 2001 18:55

Since you seem to be getting rid of all margins try

margin: 0;

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**OneChance** · Dec 23, 2001 19:50

Setting a right margin either through "margin-right" or "margin" doesn't seem to be well-supported. Although if you tried it and it didn't work, then you've already determined that.

**Checkmate** · Dec 23, 2001 23:04

Great...

**Maelstrom** · Dec 24, 2001 00:41

Originally posted by OneChance
Setting a right margin either through "margin-right" or "margin" doesn't seem to be well-supported. Although if you tried it and it didn't work, then you've already determined that.

Which browsers after ie5.5 and netscape 6 and opera don't support it. I haven;t had any problems with those?

**OneChance** · Dec 24, 2001 02:34

Originally posted by Maelstrom
Which browsers after ie5.5 and netscape 6 and opera don't support it. I haven;t had any problems with those?

And you probably won't, but unfortunately not everyone has the very latest browsers. A lot of people are still using NS 4.x. Hell, I still get hits from IE 3.x users.

**Maelstrom** · Dec 24, 2001 03:46

Originally posted by OneChance
And you probably won't, but unfortunately not everyone has the very latest browsers. A lot of people are still using NS 4.x. Hell, I still get hits from IE 3.x users.

well in that case they don't support any CSS.

...(except ns4.x)

**OneChance** · Dec 24, 2001 05:14

Actually, IE 3.x supports font-weight: bold.

**Maelstrom** · Dec 24, 2001 06:25

Originally posted by OneChance
Actually, IE 3.x supports font-weight: bold.

Really it supports one tag. Thats too funny. I have never bothered to code for ie4. and less. So I really wouldn't know

**Checkmate** · Dec 24, 2001 13:59

Hey, guys, I'm currently using the latest browsers, no doubt! Heck, I even have the latest OS (WinXP) and RH Linux 7.2 (although still a newbie)!

The margin: 0 or margin-right: 0 in CSS doesn't seem to work. This is what I got so far:

body { background-color: #ffffff;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
color: #989898;
font-size: 10pt;
margin: 0 }

**isotope235** · Dec 24, 2001 14:09

I doubt this will fix the problem but you never now.

Specify a unit for the margin: margin 0px;

**Checkmate** · Dec 24, 2001 14:14

I tried that, isotope, but it still doesn't work. Thanks for trying, though.

**isotope235** · Dec 24, 2001 14:17

Oh well, worth a shot.

Can you post the code in question?

**Checkmate** · Dec 24, 2001 14:27

I'm sorry, but what do you mean by "posting the code in question"? Pardon my stupidity.

**OneChance** · Dec 24, 2001 16:45

Can you give us a link to the page you're having a problem with?

**Checkmate** · Dec 24, 2001 23:58

I didn't upload it yet. I'm just going to ignore what I've been trying to accomplish for now and move on.

**mattjacob** · Dec 26, 2001 00:51

Originally posted by isotope235
Specify a unit for the margin: margin 0px;

You don't have to specify units when the value is 0, but I'm thinking that his problem has something to do with the doctype he's using...

**Chuckie** · Dec 26, 2001 01:04

If I understand what he is doing, why doesn't he just add these to the Body?

Code:

<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#000000" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" rightmargin="0" bottom="0">

Chuck

**mattjacob** · Dec 26, 2001 01:08

That's the "old" HTML way of doing things. No doubt, margin:0; is better, but I want to figure out why it's not taking.

**Chuckie** · Dec 26, 2001 01:17

Well shoot,

I don't want to be doing anything the "old" way, so when you figure it out could you post it

Thanks

Chuck

**Maelstrom** · Dec 26, 2001 06:44

Originally posted by Chuckie
Well shoot,

I don't want to be doing anything the "old" way, so when you figure it out could you post it

Thanks

Chuck

I would like to know to. I use Margin:0 on every site and it works everytime.

**cybercodeur** · Dec 26, 2001 11:09

How exactly do you use your margin: 0 Maelstrom? Can you tell us how your CSS looks. Do you declare it in the BODY selector? Does it work in all browsers?

**mattjacob** · Dec 26, 2001 15:23

In response to everyone, the CSS "new" way to set no margin around the entire page would be like this:

Code:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
-->
</style>

You have to add the padding: 0 as well because of Opera. Opera will leave some padding around the page unless you do that, but Internet Explorer and Mozilla won't.

**Maelstrom** · Dec 26, 2001 21:26

Originally posted by cybercodeur
How exactly do you use your margin: 0 Maelstrom? Can you tell us how your CSS looks. Do you declare it in the BODY selector? Does it work in all browsers?

See colon. I didn't quite realize the Opera problem. But thats cause I don't have that browser to check with.

body {
margin: 0;
}

...Thats for the tip colon.

**mattjacob** · Dec 27, 2001 02:47

No problem.

I actually only found that out recently when I was doing some testing in Opera.

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